Subjected Subcontinent Sectarian and Sexual Lines in Indian Writing in English

Part I: Indian writing in English (IWE), an overview: gender and politics. What is Indian writing in English? The characteristics and the issues. Part II: Indo-Pakistani Partition novels: identity fallen apart. The overall situation and the issues. Partition novels before Midnight's children: an overview -- Partition novels after Midnight's children: an overview -- Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-candy-man: gender and conspiracy -- Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow lines: enchantment, fear, and hostility aroused by border lines, and the world beyond -- Midnight's children: a narrative of narcissist failure -- Meena Arora Nayak's About daddy: the diaspora and Partition -- Azad's memoir and Sujata Sabnis' A Twist in destiny -- The myth of the founding of India/Pakistan -- Part III: Women in Indian writing in English: sexuality, the body, the diaspora. The isolated female body: Sita's daughters, Anita Desai's Fire -- On the mountain, and fasting, feasting among other novels -- Female bodies in revolt: Githa Hariharan's representation of the female body -- The female body in Jouissance: Arundhati Roy's The god of small things -- Representation of the diaspora: Kiran Desai's The inheritance of loss -- Postscript -- Chronological table of works and authors